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The year Uncommon Crown Heights Elementary School welcomed its first Kindergarten class.

What is 2018?

100

An essential early literacy skill for Kindergartners

What is phonemic awareness (or letter-sound correspondence)

100

Two strategies Kindergartners use to count

What is cross and count or write the number

100

This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere 

What is nitrogen?

200

The exact address of our elementary school (including zip code)

What is 791 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11213

200
When a scholar reads the word cat, then uses what they know to read hat and bat, they are showing understanding of what word feature?

What is a word family or rime pattern?

200

Showing the number 14 as 10 + 4 by using ten-frames or drawing a group of ten and a group of four uses which key first-grade concept?

What is decomposing by place value?

200

If you rearrange the letters in "listen," you get another word that means almost the same thing

What is silent?

300

The year Uncommon Schools began providing education opportunities in Brooklyn

What is 2004?

300

This reading skill combines accuracy, automaticity and expression, and is often practiced with choral reading.

What is fluency?

300

Scholars solving story problems in second grade must show evidence of this strategy.

What is solving with base-ten?

300

This city, whose name means "New City" in Greek, was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. and became a major center of learning

What is Alexandria (Egypt)?

400

The number of Kindergarteners in the first ever class at UCHE

What is 90 kindergartners?

400

This text feature is found underneath a photo and explains what the photo is of.

What is a caption?

400

A student draws 4 rows of 7 stars to represent 4 × 7 = 28. This model is an example of what mathematical representation.

What is an array?

400

The word curriculum comes from the Latin word currere, meaning what?

What is "to run" or "a course"?

500

The organization that oversees our charter school's renewal process

What is the State University of New York Charter Schools Institute (SUNY) or SUNY Trustees

500

When you preview the text you are looking for these things.

What is genre, text structure, author's opening claim and text features?

500

These are the six keys of math.

R/Multiplicative comparison, R/Equal Groups, R/Compare, R/PPW, A/Separate, A/Join
500

This ancient philosopher founded a school called Lyceum in Athens and is often considered the father of formal education

Who is Aristotle?

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